Lake Chelan Bach Fest Noon Concert Series: All-Bach Program
Free
- Kara Hunnicutt, cello
- Selina Greso, oboe
- Susan DeWitt Smith, piano
- Megan Renae Parker, soprano
- Julie Cross, alto
- Mel Foster, tenor
- Charles Robert Stephens, baritone
Johann Sebastian Bach — Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe ("I am standing with one foot in the grave"), BWV 156
Johann Sebastian Bach — Oster-Oratorium ("Easter Oratorio"), BWV 249 ("III. Kommt, eilet, und laufet")
Johann Sebastian Bach — Freue dich, erlöste Schaar, BWV 30
About Kara Hunnicutt, cello
About Selina Greso, oboe
About Megan Renae Parker, soprano
About Julie Cross, alto
About Mel Foster, tenor
About Charles Robert Stephens, baritone
Charles has enjoyed a career spanning a wide variety of roles and styles in opera and concert music. His performances have shown "a committed characterization and a voice of considerable beauty." (Opera News, 1995) At the New York City Opera he sang the role of Professor Friedrich Bhaer in the New York premiere of Adamo's Little Women, and was hailed by the New York Times as a "baritone of smooth distinction." Other New York City Opera roles since his debut as Marcello in 1995 include Frank in Die Tote Stadt, Sharpless in Madame Butterfly, and Germont in La Traviata. He has sung on numerous occasions at Carnegie Hall in a variety of roles with the Opera Orchestra of New York, the Oratorio Society of New York, the Masterworks Chorus, and Musica Sacra.
Now based in Seattle, Charles has sung with the Seattle Symphony, Tacoma and Spokane Symphonies and Opera Companies, Portland Chamber Orchestra and many other orchestras and opera companies in the Pacific Northwest. He joined the roster of the Seattle Opera in 2010 for the premiere of Amelia by Daron Hagan.
Recent collaborations with early music expert Stephen Stubbs include the role of Haman in Handel's Esther with Pacific Musicworks as part of the Seattle Handel Festival, Messiah with Portland Baroque and the role of Tiresias in the Boston Early Music Festival's lavish production of Steffani's Niobe, Queen of Thebes. A long association with Maestro Gary Thor Wedow has recently led to two performances with the Seattle Symphony: Messiah and "Opera Festival."
http://www.charlesrobertstephens.com/